Technoscience and environmental justice
Subtitle: expert cultures in a grassroots movement
By: edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen ; afterword by Kim Fortun
Series: Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780262015790; 9780262516181
Subjects: Industries; Citizen participation; Science; Case studies; Environmental justice; Environmental policy; Environmental health; Technology; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Environmental justice and the transformation of science and engineering / Benjamin Cohen and Gwen Ottinger; title: Who are the experts of environmental health justice? / Scott Frickel; title: From science-based legal advocacy to community organizing : opportunties and obstacles to transforming patterns of expertise and access / Karen Hoffman; title: Toxic transformations : constructing online audiences for environmental justice / Jason Delborne and Wyatt Galusky; title: Experts, ethics, and environmental justice : communiciating and contesting results from personal exposure science / Rachel Morello-Frosch ... [et al.]; title: Middle-out social change : expert-led development interventions in Sri Lanka's energy sector / Dean Nieusma; title: Invisible people, invisible risks : how scientific assessments of environmental health risks overlook minorities : and how community participation can make them visible / Maria Powell and Jim Powell; title: Risk assessment and native Americans at the cultural crossroads : making better science or redefining health? / Jaclyn R. Johnson and Darren J. Ranco; title: Uneven transformations and environmental justice : regulatory science, street science, and pesticide regulation in California / Raoul S. Liévanos, Jonathan K. London, and Julie Sze; title: Rupturing engineering education : opportunities for transforming expert identities through community-based projects / Gwen Ottinger; title: Afterword : Working "faultlines" / Kim Fortun.